Fuel Up to Play 60

We know eating breakfast helps you and your school win!

Action for Healthy Kids and the National Dairy Council, as well as the NFL’s Play 60, offer programs and resources that can help encourage children to eat healthy, be active and make lasting changes toward improved wellness.

Get started in September! Make it a full year of helping your students Eat Healthy and Get Active! First, kick off the school year with the Fuel Up to Play 60 Back to School, Back to Football Challenge!

Eating breakfast at school can help you perform better in the classroom, promote good nutrition, maintain a healthy weight, improve attendance, and the ability to pay attention in class. And yet, too few students do it.

The first step to earning CEUs with Fuel Up to Play 60 is to sign up for the program. While you are waiting for your kit to arrive, you can start to learn more about the program on www.FuelUptoPlay60.com and become familiar with the specific CEU opportunities.

Fuel Up to Play 60, the in-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by National Dairy Council, local Dairy Councils and the National Football League, in collaboration with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is helping to make wellness part of the game plan in more than 70,000 schools across the country.

The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) places an important focus on children because of the growing body of evidence documenting the vital role that optimal nutrition plays throughout the lifespan.

Fuel Up on some nutritious snakcs and drink some tasty low-fat milk. Then, use that brain of yours and the code to complete the sentences.

Think you know what it takes to keep your body happy? Fuel up on some dairy foods and finish the crossword puzzle to prove it.

Up, down, diagonal or backwards, your body can move in some pretty interesting ways. See if your mind can move the same way by finding all the hidden words from the word bank.

Fueling up with low-fat and fat-free dairy foods can provide some pretty valuable health benefits. For instance, those who keep their bodies fueled up with these delicious foods keep their bones strong.

Unscramble the words to keep your brain awake. When you're done, place the letters from the numbered boxes into their corresponding box at the bottom of the page to reveal the hidden message.

New television PSA entitled “Huddle” developed by the Ad Council in collaboration with Let’s Move!, Fuel Up to Play 60, National Dairy Council, the NFL, NFL Players Association, USDA and Brunner advertising. The spot features Tony Romo, Quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, and encourages youth to get healthy and be active by joining the Fuel Up to Play 60 movement.

Compare the features of these two health and wellness programs.

Join Steve Strickler, a 3rd-generation dairy farmer in Iola, Kansas, as he takes you on a tour of his dairy farm, showing how dairy farm families work every day to provide fresh, wholesome and nutritious milk for all to enjoy. Representing Midwest Dairy Council, along with the Kansas City Chiefs, dairy farmers are proud to provide the Fuel Up to Play 60 program to you.

Funding opportunities for Fuel Up to Play 60 are available to K-12 schools enrolled in Fuel Up to Play 60. The competitive, nationwide funding program is designed to help schools jumpstart and sustain healthy nutrition and physical activity improvements.

These examples are based on specific Plays, or action strategies, schools have implemented. These Plays come right out of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Playbook and from the creative ideas of schools like yours. There are separate examples for Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Kickoff and Promotion Plays.

You need to treat your body right. It's not like you've got a spare lying around. This is the only one you've got. And it needs you right now. To make smart decisions.

Launched by National Dairy Council (NDC) and the National Football League in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA), Fuel Up to Play 60 empowers youth to take action to improve nutrition and physical activity at their school and for thier own health.

Lead the way and join Fuel Up to Play 60. I will eat healthy, be active and have fun with my friends to help make my school an even better place.

Fuel Up to Play 60 has dozens of online tools and resources to help you implement the program in your school.

Whether you are a star athlete or simply enjoy regularly participating in physical activities like dancing, soccer, tennis or biking, you need to get the right balance of nutrients every day to maintain overall performance and health. These tips can help ensure a proper training table diet to fit an active lifestyle.

While children need to eat from all food groups, there are several food groups that health experts agree Americans need to eat from more often—low-fat and fat-free milk or milk products, fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60 may be used for school-wide promotional activities to support the program as well as for the implementation of specific Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Plays. However, larger funding awards are generally reserved for schools with plans for creating sustainable change in the school nutrition and/or physical activity environment.

Our kids are becoming unhealthy and sedentary, yet budget cuts and the pressure to boost test results mean physical education and school teams have been reduced or slashed altogether. So how can we give our young people a fighting chance at good health?

Fuel Up to Play 60 empowers students to make healthy choices, and winning Healthy Eating Strategies are at the center of their success. As seasoned food and nutrition pros, you can help your school’s student teams put winning “plays” into action!

What other fruits, vegetables, whole grain foods, and/or dairy products would you like to see served at your school’s salad bar?

Explore the synergy of combining the HealthierUS School Challenge and Fuel Up to Play 60.

When you can't get to a computer, keep track of what you're doing with the Paper Tracker so next time you are at a computer, you can enter it all in the online tracker.

Many organizations are making legitimate efforts to improve youth wellness, beginning in schools, because the classroom, the cafeteria and the gymnasium are an ideal setting for learning healthy lifelong habits. What makes Fuel Up to Play 60 different from the others? How is this program positioned to positively impact the childhood obesity crisis?

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